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Approximate statistics of gapped alignments.

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A heuristic approximation to the score distribution of gapped alignments in the logarithmic domain is presented and it is shown that gapped alignment behavior is essentially governed by a single parameter, alpha, depending on the penalty scheme and sequence composition.
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A heuristic approximation to the score distribution of gapped alignments in the logarithmic domain is presented. The method applies to comparisons between random, unrelated protein sequences, using...

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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

Eric S. Lander, +248 more
- 15 Feb 2001 - 
TL;DR: The results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome are reported and an initial analysis is presented, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
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Protein repeats: structures, functions, and evolution.

TL;DR: This review considers the conundrum of how multiple repeats, which show strong structural and functional interdependencies, ever evolved from a single repeat ancestor and refers to six prolific repeat types and in other less-prolific but nonetheless interesting repeats.
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A probabilistic model of local sequence alignment that simplifies statistical significance estimation.

TL;DR: It is conjecture that both expected score distributions have simple, predictable forms when full probabilistic modeling methods are used, which enables efficient and accurate determination of expectation values (E-values) for both Viterbi and Forward scores for Probabilistic local alignments.
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The PASTA domain: a β-lactam-binding domain

TL;DR: This work describes the previously uncharacterized PASTA domain and infer that it binds β-lactam antibiotics and their peptidoglycan analogues, and postulates that PknB-like kinases are key regulators of cell-wall biosynthesis.
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Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

TL;DR: A new approach to rapid sequence comparison, basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), directly approximates alignments that optimize a measure of local similarity, the maximal segment pair (MSP) score.
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Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.

TL;DR: A new criterion for triggering the extension of word hits, combined with a new heuristic for generating gapped alignments, yields a gapped BLAST program that runs at approximately three times the speed of the original.
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Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

TL;DR: Three computer programs for comparisons of protein and DNA sequences can be used to search sequence data bases, evaluate similarity scores, and identify periodic structures based on local sequence similarity.
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